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I don't know much about bitcoin and cryptocurencies, but I do know that if you are going to use them to make the down payment on a house, when taking out a mortgage, then you need to wait a few months for your money to season after you converted your BTC into USD and deposited into a bank account, otherwise your lender might not approve the redeemed BTC as a qualifying asset.

@NuclearReactionary Yeah I am serious. When a major event happens a lot of people go to the markets to trade on the new information. They may trade stocks, oil, gold, currency, it all depends what happened. But just about every market in the world is closed from 5pm EDT Friday (When the US Futures Market closes) until 5pm EDT Sunday (When the Sydney Stock exchange opens). The only thing that is available to trade over the weekend is cryptocurrency (since it doesn't actually require any coordinated exchanges to be "open" so to speak).

Satoshi said,
“It would be nice to keep the blk*.dat files small as long as we can. The eventual solution will be to not care how big it gets. But for now, while it’s still small, it’s nice to keep it small so new users can get going faster. When I eventually implement client-only mode, that won’t matter much anymore.”
“Whatever size micropayments you need will eventually be practical. I think in 5 or 10 years, the bandwidth and storage will seem trivial.”

Do you think we have enough people invested into the market to fluctuate prices in our favor? For example, we get 1000 people to purchase 2 Etherium at once to jack up the price, then we sell. I know we don’t have 1000 people that can do that at the moment, but hypothetically, as we grow do you think that would be a viable plan to manipulate the market in our favor?

I just switched my bank from an online-only to BB&T (16th largest in the country) and wow, it is an improvement.
* Registering with Coinbase was instant because a bank this large has working relationships with everyone. No need to wait 5 business days for 2 verification deposits of five cents.
* The crypto purchase was available in my account instantly, again due to the close working relationships. I used to have to wait 7-8 days for the ACH to clear before I had control of my crypto.
* This bank is compatible with Zelle, making payments to Identity Evropa much easier.

One somewhat concerning thing though: whenever I see in the news a major institution getting into blockchain technology, they don't go on to say they are actually getting into Bitcoin or any of the other cryptocurrencies that are already out there. Instead they are looking to use the ideas of blockchain technology but not neccessarily any particular implementation out there. That makes holding any particular cryptocurrency a risky(-er) proposition.

@ThisIsChris this article doesn’t talk about blockchain, it talks about the crypto currencies themselves.

That said, companies that talk about getting into blockchain often don’t understand the purpose of a blockchain and nothing ever comes of the project. Currency is one of very few applications where a blockchain is worthwhile.

Just because some people with money are throwing it at blockchain projects does not mean they will usurp the top crypto currencies. That’s placing far too much faith in figures of authority and far too little in the invention of bitcoin itself.

• “Bitcoin Unlimited” software developers are releasing a fix for the most **pressing** bottleneck in BCH’s transaction capacity

• “Bitcoin ABC” software developers are releasing a fix for the most **complex** bottleneck in BCH’s transaction capacity. One that won’t be experienced for more than a year from now. Doing it now because later on that will be near impossible.